Natalie Portman Quotes
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Even Donald Trump presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.
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Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
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Microcredit is about giving hope.
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
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Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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While Domald Trump chose a running mate, Mike Pence, who wrote a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in if he won.
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If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.
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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.
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I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.
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It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
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You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on social media that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
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Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.